HomeMy WebLinkAbout2026-09-19 Camille Mandini Support
From: Camille Mandini
To: Planning LPC Testimony
Subject: Kailua Kona data center
Date: Saturday, September 19, 2026 9:50:01 PM
My name is Camille Mandini and I live in Honaunau on the Big island of Hawai'i. I am
writing in support of Bill 170 and asking the Leeward Planning Commission to
recommend additional strengthening changes before sending it back to the County
Council.
The original Bill 170 language uses subjective phrases like "industrial-scale
operation" and "beyond that typically accessory or incidental to office, commercial, or
public institutional uses."
Those phrases don't set a clear line, and a well-resourced developer's attorney can
argue around them either way. I'm asking the Commission to recommend replacing
that subjective language with an objective, enforceable standard: a specific electrical-
demand threshold, measured in megawatts, that applies to a single facility and to any
campus of multiple facilities built under common ownership or control, so a developer
can't dodge the rule by splitting one large project into several smaller buildings.
These Data Centers will only destroy the island more than what it is going through, by
taking away water sources for the community, endangered native animals, and
plants. The Data centers have no positive effects or outcomes toward the islands.
Our island's closed water system, fossil-fuel-dependent grid, and already strained
infrastructure cannot support data centers. Please recommend the strongest possible
version of this bill to the County Council.
Mahalo, Camille Mandini